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The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching BY J. DODD JACKSON.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON: W. A. HAMMOND, PRIMITIVE METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, HOLBORN HALL, CLERKENWELL ROAD, B.C. 1912.
TO THE MEMORY OF The Rev. James Jackson A PRIMITIVE METHODIST PREACHER FOR FIFTY FIVE YEARS AND PRESIDENT OF THE CONFERENCE of 1897 THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY AND REVERENTLY DEDICATED BY HIS SON.
"'A WORKMAN' NEEDING 'NOT TO BE ASHAMED,
RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH.'"
PREFACE. It would be strange, indeed, if in the procession of annual volumes of
which this lecture is an unit, there did not arrive a book about
preaching. The work of the preacher holds so large a place in the
service and worship of God; it is, to all appearance, so essential to
the accomplishment of the purposes of the Redeemer; its content and
quality mean so much to the life and health of the Church; it has
played and is destined to play so great a part in the saving of
mankind, that, sooner or later, it was bound to come within the purview
of this lectureship. Now that, at last, the inevitable has happened, it may be said that the
following pages have been written under the conviction that one of the
greatest needs of the present day is a pulpit revival a revival
which will issue in a new endeavour to realise the highest
possibilities of the divinest of callings. Many of late years have
wandered from the fold of the Church; mighty is the multitude of those
who have never been within her fellowship. The author is more than
convinced that any attempt to claim and reclaim must, to be successful
on a large scale, commence in a renaissance of Gospel preaching. With
the preacher, more than with the ecclesiastic or the musician or the
theologian, not to mention the Biblical critic and the religio social
worker, rests the task of solving the great problem of twentieth
century Christianity. This problem is neither a critical nor a
theological one, but simply that of the age long campaign: How shall
we so commend the Christ as to draw the world to His feet? To this avowal, the writer would venture to add a brief personal
explanation. Strongly convinced, though he is, of the soundness of the
view expressed above, he did not enter willingly upon the task of this
book. His brother preachers will know what it is to be captured by a
text which comes uninvited and persistently demands to be preached
upon. How often such an arrest finds its subject unwilling, doubtful
of his powers, afraid to be obedient to the unsought command! So came
the subject of this essay to the writer thereof. For long he tried
strenuously, though vainly, to make his escape to the refuge of some
other topic wherein he might, less daringly, discharge the
responsibilities of this lectureship. He disclaims, therefore, any
presumption of which he may be accused in attempting an enterprise
which some may think is outside his province or beyond his powers.
This book embodies not a challenge, but a surrender! One word more may be allowed. Surely, no one will need to be told that
the "Hartley Lecture" is delivered under the auspices of the Primitive
Methodist Church, or that its delivery is included in the programme of
its Annual Conference. This will explain why the reader will find,
here and there, in the chapters here assembled, certain denominational
allusions of a historic and biographical character. Primitive
Methodists will readily understand them and, we hope, discover that
they add force to argument strength to appeal. Readers of other
denominations will not find that the meaning of the writer is obscured
by any one of these references. As for the principles sought to be
commended and emphasised, any application they may have is not limited
by denominational boundaries. LONDON,
June 1st , 1912.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
BOOK I. THE MAN. Chapter I. The Designation of the Preacher
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